Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 22, 2026
Macopy watches your clipboard, which is about as personal as it gets. So the important part first: none of it goes anywhere. The app makes no network requests at all — not for analytics, not for updates, not for anything. There is no server behind it and no account.
Where your history is kept
Everything you copy is written to a single file inside your own Library folder, on your Mac, and read back from there. Deleting that file, or the app's support folder, clears the history for good.
The file is plain text, and that matters
History is stored unencrypted. Anything you copy is saved as it was copied, except for items a password manager marks as secret. macOS has a convention for this, `org.nspasteboard.ConcealedType`, and Macopy skips anything carrying it, along with content marked transient or auto-generated. A password from an app that does not set that marker still lands in the file in readable form, the same as any other entry. That file is inside your user account, so another account on the Mac can't read it — but anything running as you can. If that isn't a trade you want, clear the history after copying something sensitive, or quit Macopy before you do.
Why it asks for accessibility and automation
Picking an item pastes it into whatever app you were using, and macOS treats driving another app that way as accessibility and automation. Those permissions exist for pasting and nothing else. They are not used to read other apps' windows or contents.
No analytics, and no update check either
There is no crash reporting, no usage tracking, no unique identifier, and no third-party SDK. The app does not phone home to look for new versions — you get those from GitHub when you go and get them.
You can check all of this
Macopy is open source under the MIT license, so none of the above has to be taken on trust. Read the source or open an issue there if something looks wrong.
Changes
If a future version starts doing something new with your data, this page gets updated before that version ships.